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GEF 2020: Strategy for the GEFMarch, 2015GEF2020 emphasizes the need for us to support transformational change and achieve impacts on a broader scale. The strategy calls for the GEF to focus on the drivers of environmental degradation, and it addresses the importance of supporting broad coalitions of committed stakeholders and innovative and scalable activities. GEF2020 provides a path forward for the GEF to become a champion of the global environment.2020| GEF 2020| strategy

Sustainable CitiesJanuary, 2015The GEF is launching a US$100 million integrated program on sustainable cities that will demonstrate how innovation and high impact investment can support a sustainable management of cities.cities| IAP| Integrated Approaches

Guidelines for the Implementation of the Public Involvement PolicyJanuary, 2015The need for stakeholder engagement, including information dissemination, consultation, and stakeholder participation, is a cornerstone feature of the work of the GEF.This has been recognized very early in the GEF, when the Council approved the Policy on Public Involvement in GEF Projects.

Taking Tropical Deforestation out of Commodity Supply ChainsDecember, 2014Many globally traded agriculture products have become indispensable fixtures in the human food chain; making their way into a vast array of foods and goods consumed by billions of people around the world. They represent a significant part of the global commodities trade and have become dominant economic forces in many national and local economies. The environmental footprint of these products in the quest to feed a growing population and meet the aspiration of a rising global middle class has been nothing short of dramatic.Commodities| deforestation| IAP| Integrated Approaches| Integrated Approaches Pilots

GEF's Private Sector Engagement in Climate FInanceDecember, 2014Together with our dedicated climate adaptation funds, the GEF aims to accelerate climate finance during in the next four years. The newly completed sixth replenishment of the GEF Trust Fund (GEF-6) will enable the GEF to make about US$3 billion available for climate finance, and leverage up to US$30 billion from other sources.climate finance| Private Sector

Building Capacity to Implement the Nagoya Protocol: A Review of GEF SupportOctober, 2014The GEF has supported ABS for more than a decade. As the financial
mechanism of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) the GEF has
assisted parties in building the capacities to comply with the third objective of
the Convention, “the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of
the utilization of genetic resources, including by appropriate access to genetic
resources and by appropriate transfer of relevant technologies, taking into
account all rights over those resources and to technologies, and by appropriate
funding”.ABS| Nagoya Protocol

GEF Investments on Payments for Ecosystem Services SchemesOctober, 2014The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has engaged in
pioneering development of mechanisms that reward good
stewardship of natural resources, including the structuring of
Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes. For the GEF,
the concept of PES includes a variety of arrangements through
which the beneficiaries of ecosystem services compensate
those providing the services. This publication summarizes
the investments of GEF in PES from a variety of institutional,
thematic and geographic perspectives. The publication
also highlights some of the trends and opportunities for the
establishment of PES schemes to generate global environmental
benefits. Investments have ranged from global projects aiming
at building the human and institutional capacity necessary to
establish PES schemes, to stand-alone agreements between
buyers and sellers in watersheds of high biodiversity value.Payment Ecosystem Services| PES

GEF Programming Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change, Least Developed Countries Fund, Special Climate Change FundOctober, 2014Over the past decade, the GEF has financed a pioneering, global portfolio of adaptation projects
and programs in over 124 countries with grant resources amounting to $1.18 billion. These
interventions are reducing the vulnerability of people, livelihoods, physical assets and natural
systems to the adverse effects of climate change across key vulnerable sectors, including agriculture,
water resources management, infrastructure, and health.
This publication lays out the new programming strategy for the July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2018
period. Building on the GEF’s solid experience in financing climate change adaptation, the
Strategy presents the programming priorities for the next four years.Adaptation| Adaptation LDCF SCCF| LDCF| SCCF

Climate Finance for Global ImpactSeptember, 2014Climate change is the defining challenge of our time. It is no longer a threat; it is already a reality. Atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations continue to increase at a rapid pace, and will exceed 400 ppm in the very near term.Climate Change| IAP| UNFCCC

The GEF-6 Biodiversity StrategyAugust, 2014The goal of the GEF’s biodiversity strategy is to maintain globally significant biodiversity and the ecosystem goods and services that it provides to society.
To achieve this goal,the strategy encompasses four objectives:
1) improve sustainability of protected area systems;
2) reduce threats to biodiversity;
3) sustainably use biodiversity; and
4) mainstream conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity into production landscapes/seascapes and sectors.Focal Area Strategy GEF 6| GEF 6| strategy

Small Island Developing States and the Global Environment Facility: Building Lasting PartnershipsAugust, 2014Since the Global Environment Facility (GEF) was founded 22
years ago, the GEF has been a strong partner and supporter
of sustainable development for the Small Island Developing
States (SIDS). The GEF has supported the development of the
green economy in the SIDS because nowhere is the inextricable
connection between people’s wellbeing and prosperity and
the environment more clear than on small islands.

Sustainable Urbanization Policy Breif: Proliferation of Urban Centres, their Impact on the World’s Environment and the Potential Role of the GEFJune, 2014The world is in the midst of a massive, unprecedented shift in population distribution towards urban
centers. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) reports that in 2008, for the first time there were
more people living in cities than in the countryside1. Moreover, by 2030, it is estimated that five billion
people will live in urban centers, with the predominant growth occurring in Africa and Asia. The newly
published IPCC Report (Chapter 12) on Human Settlements, Infrastructure and Spatial Planning2 states
that expansion of urban areas is on average twice as fast as urban population growth, and that the
expected increase in urban land cover during the first three decades of the 21st Century will be greater
than the cumulative urban expansion in all of human history.Policy Brief| STAP| Urbanization